March 23 » The Peace of Longjumeau is signed, ending the second phase of the French Wars of Religion.
May 2 » Mary, Queen of Scots, escapes from Loch Leven Castle.
May 13 » Battle of Langside: The forces of Mary, Queen of Scots, are defeated by a confederacy of Scottish Protestants under James Stewart, Earl of Moray, her half-brother.
May 16 » Mary, Queen of Scots, flees to England.
May 23 » Dutch rebels led by Louis of Nassau, defeat Jean de Ligne, Duke of Arenberg, and his loyalist troops in the Battle of Heiligerlee, opening the Eighty Years' War.
July 21 » Eighty Years' War: Battle of Jemmingen: Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alva defeats Louis of Nassau.
March 3 » The Olympic Theatre, designed by Andrea Palladio, is inaugurated in Vicenza.
April 9 » The expedition organised by Sir Walter Raleigh departs England for Roanoke Island (now in North Carolina) to establish the Roanoke Colony.
July 7 » The Treaty of Nemours abolishes tolerance to Protestants in France.
August 10 » The Treaty of Nonsuch signed by Elizabeth I of England and the Dutch Rebels.
August 17 » A first group of colonists sent by Sir Walter Raleigh under the charge of Ralph Lane lands in the New World to create Roanoke Colony on Roanoke Island, off the coast of present-day North Carolina.
August 17 » Eighty Years' War: Siege of Antwerp: Antwerp is captured by Spanish forces under Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma, who orders Protestants to leave the city and as a result over half of the 100,000 inhabitants flee to the northern provinces.
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